This idiotic sort of thing is what my current project, to make the international legal environment more friendly to space development and settlement, partially about.
Acculturating
It’s hard. Very hard.
If you don’t read Sarah Hoyt every day, you should.
The Voting Age
Jim Treacher has a modest proposal.
On Twitter the other day, I proposed lowering it to minus nine months, to increase the pro-life vote.
The Second Amendment
We need it more than ever.
Yup. The current situation is approaching exactly what the Founders feared.
[Update a few minutes later]
Mark Steyn: A total failure of the State.
That assumes, of course, that this wasn’t exactly what the State intended.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yes, it would appear that “liberals” don’t want to stop school shootings.
The Democrats’ Memo
It’s an extended straw man.
More from Sara Carter, who has been all over this story from the beginning.
Lost In Space
No, literally (I hate that as a title of a space article or op-ed). They’re apparently doing a reboot. I thought the show was stupid as a kid, but as my old roommate Alan Katz (and Glenn Reynolds) noted, the first season, which I missed as a kid, was actually quite dark and interesting, before it devolved into camp with the robot flailing its arms around shouting “Danger, Will Robinson.” It could be interesting. But then, I think between acclaim of The Expanse and everything exciting happening in real spaceflight, it could be new golden age for good space-based hard science fiction, in all venues.
Busy
I’m back in Florida, not for fun. Still trying to get another house ready to sell, so we’ll finally be done with real estate in this wretched state. I hope to see the Falcon launch on Sunday, but from afar (I’ll be down in west Palm Beach County). So probably not a lot of blogging for the next week, but I’ll post a couple of things a day, to keep the conversation going. Just to let you know, you know, that I am at least keeping an eye on comments.
And congrats to SpaceX for another successful launch and getting closer on fairing recovery. I’m sure Mr. Steven is disappointed. Though I’ve heard that ships get upset when you anthropomorphize them.
Worst Presidents
Obama was bad, but yes, these were probably all worse. The best thing about Obama was that he gave (finally) us an election that will allow us to undo a lot of his damage (though he should have lost in 2012). But what the kids’ opinions about good and bad presidents really speaks to is how ignorant of history they are, thanks to government schools and teachers’ unions.
Building Light And Huge
Brian Wang (who I met at Foresight Vision Weekend in December) has a good roundup of the coming revolution in space assembly.
California’s Climate Litigation
It’s going to be a loser, on multiple levels:
San Mateo County claimed in its complaint to be “particularly vulnerable to sea level rise” with a 93 percent the county will experience a “devastating” flood before 2050. Imperial Beach and Marin County also claimed in their separate complaints to be vulnerable to devastating floods because of climate change.
“If sea levels were to raise that high, it most certainly would be catastrophic,” Epstein said.
However, bond offerings in the last few years by those counties and cities weren’t so forthcoming about those predictions, Exxon said in a verified petition filed last month with the District Court in Tarrant County, Texas.
San Mateo’s 2014 and 2016 bond offerings told would-be investors that the county “is unable to predict whether sea-level rise or other impacts of climate change or flooding from a major storm will occur,” Exxon’s petition said.
Imperial Beach and Marin County never disclosed the same information to perspective bond investors that was detailed in their complaints against the energy companies, Exxon’s petition said.
Making those claims in their lawsuits against energy companies – but not in their bond offerings – smacks of hypocrisy, Exxon is arguing.
As he says, cross-examination will be brutal.